Sentences with phrase «measure food insecurity»

To measure food insecurity, they asked whether patients had been worried about having enough food to eat at any point in the past 30 days.

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

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The absence of a government in Somalia for more than 20 years, no focused way to address widespread food insecurity, and the worst dry seasons in 60 years have, she said, created a «perfect storm» making response measures even more difficult.

And then parallel to all of that, there are decades of underfunding, so they live in a context with a housing crisis, they live in a context with... research shows between 50 to 72 per cent food insecurity where that's measured by them skipping meals or missing meals etcetera.»

Activist groups that routinely assert that American children suffer malnutrition are actually measuring something they term «food insecurity,» a condition that usually results more from poor household management than from scarce resources.

The surveys don't measure nutrition, but instead ask about feelings of «insecurity» concerning food, measuring the percentage of households that reported «difficulty getting enough nutritious, safe food at all times, in a socially acceptable way.»

«Agricultural support measures of advanced countries and food insecurity in developed countries: Economic linkages and policy responses», in Guha - Khasnobis, B., S.S. Acharya and B. Davis (eds.).

growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The evidence illustrates loss and damage around barriers and limits to adaptation: growing food and livelihood insecurity, unreliable water supplies, deteriorating human welfare and increasing manifestation of erosive coping measures (e.g. eating less, distress sale of productive assets to buy food, reducing the years of schooling for children, etc.).

The Food Insecurity and Climate Change index is a measure of how vulnerable to disruption a country's food security system is as a result of flood and drought eveFood Insecurity and Climate Change index is a measure of how vulnerable to disruption a country's food security system is as a result of flood and drought evefood security system is as a result of flood and drought events.